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Eco Fashion – The Daily Telegraph
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG7205477/Orsola-de-Castro-The-ethical-fashion-designer.html Orsola de Castro: The ethical fashion designer – Telegraph fashion.telegraph.co.uk Orsola de Castro, 43, is the founder of From Somewhere, which makes clothes out of recycled offcuts of luxury materials. With her partner, Filippo Ricci, she curates Estethica, an initiative in association with the British Fashion Orsola de Castro: The ethical fashion designer Orsola…